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How to use pinioned in a sentence

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Swans are caught and their wings' flight feathers are clipped, or pinioned.
Ariel and Audrey were trapped in the corner, pinioned by several of the girls.
Within seconds he had me pinioned on my back, his own weight pressing me down.
Thomas had her pinioned on the bed and was intent on making good his promise.
There he was pinioned to the floor by devices with smooth jaws similar to the trap that had taken him.
Though her arms were pinioned back by the soldiers, she threw herself on her knees before the ruler.
The drunk, singular in his rebellion, had bitten her hand while they pinioned his limbs down.
When Blakewell awoke, his hands were pinioned behind the small of his back, and his shoulders, waist and arms were tied.
But before he could finish his sentence, he felt his legs pinioned by a frantic set of arms.
Gaulier bends her at the waist, her arms pinioned behind her, and karate-chops her back.
Students pinioned his leg to prevent any involuntary movement when the surgeon cut into his flesh.
Finally, with a magnificent sense of the dramatic, we were pinioned by headlights against a wall in a blind alley.
He cried out and tried to get away, but the stranger pinioned him down with inhuman strength.
Then she went up and held on to him, pinioned him, her head on his left shoulder.
She felt them tighten the strap around her waist and realized that she was now quite securely pinioned.
Its horn blared ceaselessly, jammed by the dead body of the driver, Henri Paul, pinioned on the steering column by the impact.
Then, at some moment mercifully unwitnessed, an attempt to rise higher, to fly, met by an all but invisible limit, beating wings pinioned, deep instinct denied.
Or a gunman shoots the pinioned victim through the kneecaps, perhaps also the elbows.
Oh, Mr. Goose, it appears that you are pinioned behind a wall of chain!
In his haste to escape he fell and was pinioned between the stalks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He felt the paper thrust into his hands, reached for her wrists, and pinioned them.
Responsive to that gesture, Gonzaga faced the pinioned captain truculently.
The rope had looped him about the body and pinioned his arms at the same time.
But my men dashed up, knocked his feet from under him and pinioned him to the ground.
Unarmed and taken at a vantage, I was struck down and pinioned in a moment.
They were crushed and pinioned in that prison of steel, and mightily they tried to burst it.
But when he stood beneath the cross-arm to be pinioned, his legs played him traitor.
Then as it descended between his legs he found one of them pinioned.
The babui was a prisoner, pinioned to the ground by a fallen tree!
When the formidable Huron was completely pinioned, the scout released his hold, and Duncan laid his enemy on his back, utterly helpless.
As Meriem struggled with Malbihn, her hands pinioned to her sides by his brawny grip, hope died within her.
The Indian was catapulted from his saddle with arms pinioned to his aide.
But the relentless Ghost pinioned him in both his arms, and forced him to observe what happened next.
When I was clear of the house, a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind, and my arms were pinioned.
Relaxing his bowstring, he returned the arrow to the quiver and, throwing the bow about his shoulder, stepped closer to the pinioned beast.
The same tentacle, assisted by a new one, pinioned his shoulders.
His arms were pinioned to his sides and there was horror and terror on his face, that looked imploringly at the youths from above the topmost coil of those encircling him.
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